U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has disbanded a task force established to target Russian oligarchs following the invasion of Ukraine, arguing that resources need to be shifted to focus on the administration's anti-cartel efforts.

The Trump administration's Justice Department has disbanded a Biden-era program aimed at seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs as a means to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

The U.S. Justice Department under President Donald Trump is disbanding an effort started after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine to enforce sanctions and target oligarchs close to the Kremlin.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has disbanded the KleptoCapture task force, a Treasury Department initiative launched in 2022 to target business figures with ties to the Kremlin, The Guardian reported on Thursday,

I don’t know if you’ve been watching, but we got rid of woke over the last two weeks,” he said. “Woke is gone-zo.”

Speaking at a bipartisan National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington, DC Hilton hotel, Trump said the task force will be ordered to “immediately halt all forms of anti Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government,” including at the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Task Force KleptoCapture, launched under the Joe Biden administration in 2022, aimed to isolate Russia by freezing the assets of Russian oligarchs linked to Vladimir Putin and prosecuting those involved in sanctions evasion.

Under President Donald Trump, the US Department of Justice is halting efforts that were initiated following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, aimed at enforcing sanctions and prosecuting oligarchs close to the Kremlin.